Pokemon TCG-like gacha turns Wikipedia pages into cards

Japanese developer Harusugi has turned Wikipedia into a gacha-style card game called Wikipedia Gacha. It converts each encyclopedia entry into a trading card; each pack contains five cards across multiple rarity levels and draws from the site’s vast range of articles, in a format reminiscent of the Pokemon TCG.

The first pack contained the American car racer Daniel Bois, a Russian air gun, the John Updike novel Rabbit at Rest, basketball player Marquis Teague, and Palestinian Justice. A second pack included British politician Maria Eagle and French retail conglomerate Groupe Fnac Darty. Higher-rarity cards include flavor text, and clicking any card opens the full article.

The game spread quickly after launch, prompting Harusugi to post about server stability and to add safeguards for players outside Japan. So far the site appears to be holding up, and it offers an unusually distracting way to kill some time — you might even learn something.

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